Dolemite

The baddest nightclub owner in all of California, Dolemite was framed and sent to prison on the order of a rival pimp named Willie Green. After being freed thanks to a pardon, Dolemite set out to rebuild his lost career and take down Willie and the corrupt officials he was in league with. In his second adventure, Dolemite is chased out of a town by a racist sheriff and has to deal with a mob boss named Cavaletti who kidnapped some of his friend’s dancers. And in his third and final outing, Dolemite returns from an extended stay in Africa with his sons to clean the city streets of crime once and for all. Oh, and somewhere between those second and third things, he also helps out Sugar Bear of the Insane Clown Posse with solving a criminal case. Both a warrior and a poet, Dolemite has studied martial arts and performs stand up routines at his club when he’s not busy beating the shit out of any rat soup-eating motherfucker who wrongs him. He often includes rhymes in his speech, refers to himself in the third person, and has more costume changes than a Barbie doll. Dolemite’s dedicated to keeping the streets clean, but isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty in the process.

Strength and Martial Arts

• Causes a house to quake while having sex, making things fall off the walls and eventually bringing down the roof. (source) (2)
• Kicks a man so hard he slides across the floor and knocks over some wooden pieces like a bowling ball. (source) (3)
• Kicks a man repeatedly in the chest, with the last one sending him sailing over a stack of cardboard boxes. (source) (3)
• Sends one man into another, flips another man into the floor, then launches another man into some boxes with a kick to the head. (source) (3)
• Knocks a man off his feet with a punch. (source) (3)
• Knocks a guy out with one slap. (source) (3)
• Knocks Almo Green off his feet with a kick after stunning him. (source) (3)
• Knocks Black Chin Ho off his feet twice. (source) (3)
• Sends a man back with a kick. (source) (2)
• Beats a guy up in a fight, then throws him off when he jumps on his back and takes him down with a kick that breaks bone. (source) (2)
• Tears out part of Willie Green’s chest. (source) (1)
• Throws a man through the air like a ragdoll, sending him into some boxes. (source) (3)
• Throws a man off a balcony. (source) (2)
• Flips a man into the floor. (source) (3)
• Hides and pulls in a man to knock him out. (source) (2)
• Snaps a man’s neck. (source) (2)
• Pulls a wooden board with a woman tied to it on a rope. (source) (2)
• Throws one man over a hedge, then knocks back another with two kicks, then knees another into his car’s trunk. (source) (1)
• Beats up two cops. Somehow he’s able to hit a man in the face with a kick that clearly doesn’t connect. (source) (1)
• Quickly takes down two guys with guns, disarming and killing one with his own gun. (source) (1)
• Beats down one guy after the other in quick succession, choking out or breaking the neck of the first one. (source) (2)
• Quickly beats down three men. (source) (1)
• Beats up three guards even when one comes at him with a wooden pole. (source) (2)
• Alongside Blakely, beats up some assassins, knocking one into a wall and punching one over a bed. He had one arm in a sling at the time. (source) (1)
• Beats up tons of guards while invading a house. (source) (2)
• In his old age, keeps up with four young guards all at the same time. He’s still able to fight after even more guards come in. (source) (3)
• Knocks a guy back with a kick and flips two guys at once. (source) (2)
• Defeats a man who was said to be the nunchuck champion of Central America. (source) (2)
• Matches a guard’s acrobatic fighting style with his own and takes him down. (source) (3)
• Defeats Black Chin Ho, who seems to be some kind of martial arts expert. (source) (3)
• Hooks his leg around a man’s head to make him bow down, then kicks him in the face repeatedly with his other foot. (source) (3)
• Queen Bee says Dolemite used to be ‘pretty good’ at karate, though Dolemite says his skills need brushing up. (source) (1)
• Claims to have fought all over the world, including Panama, Connecticut, and Warsaw. (source) (3)
• As a ghost, trains Sugar Bear in general fitness and martial arts. After training, Sugar Bear’s able to swiftly beat up two guards and instantly knock another one out with a nerve pinch. (source) (BMH)

Durability

• Takes some punches and a strike to the side of the head and stays conscious, though he’s subdued after. (source) (1)
• Takes some punches to the gut, and though he reels he’s able to fight right after. (source) (1)
• Gets knocked around by Willie Green and keeps fighting after. (source) (1)
• He’s alright rolling down a hill naked. (source) (2)
• Gets thrown against a wall by a man and keeps fighting. (source) (2)
• In his old age, gets kicked across the ground by Almo Green and keeps fighting after. (source) (3)
• Gets shot in the shoulder by Willie Green and still fights after, though he’s eventually brought to a hospital. (source) (1)
• After being put in the hospital because of that gunshot, he’s able to fight just fine even with his arm in a sling. (source) (1)
• Keeps fighting while being choked. (source) (2)
• At the end of the second movie, gets shot repeatedly in the back and survives thanks to a lined vest he was wearing under his shirt. (source) (2)
• In his old age, gets taken down with one strike from behind. He could’ve been conscious and just surrendered after however. (source) (3)

Speed and Agility

• Blocks a punch from a man, then blocks another attack. (source) (1)
• Totally real bullet dodging. (source) (1)
• While naked, rolls to his gun and makes a shot before a man can shoot him with a shotgun. (source) (2)
• Blocks attacks from the nunchuck champion of Central America and hits him with a spinning roundhouse kick. (source) (2)
• Dodges nunchuck swings from the nunchuck champion of Central America. (source) (2)
• Uses some acrobatic moves in a fight, dodging attacks from a guard. (source) (3)
• Dodges and blocks tons of rapid punches. (source) (3)
• A one on one fight gets sped up. (source) (2)
• Another one on one fight is sped up. (source) (2)
• Takes down three guys quickly, with the scene getting sped up. (source) (2)
• Fights two guys with the movie speeding up. He blocks attacks from one and hits him with tons of repeated blows. (source) (2)
• The movie speeds up while he’s fighting three guys and when one attacks him again with a pole. (source) (2)
• Leaps up to a high balcony. (source) (2)
• Does a number of cartwheels, even though he’s pretty old at this point. (source) (3)
• Pulls a woman tied to a wooden board out of the way of a trap before it can fall. (source) (2)
• Grabs and throws away a live grenade, then dives to the ground with a girl before (or at least as) it goes off. (source) (2)

Weaponry

• Blows away some guys with a J&R Engineering M80 Carbine, then makes another dance by shooting the ground near his feet. (source) (1)
• Disarms a man of his Colt Python and uses it briefly. (source) (1)
• In the second movie, he starts carrying around a revolver of his own. (source) (2)
• Uses a shotgun, blowing up a car with it. (source) (2)
• Briefly shown using a Ruger GP100 revolver at the end of Big Money Hustlas. (source) (BMH)
• Carries a switchblade on him and uses it to tear up some carpet, and also carries a small handgun. This gun actually appears to be a Mondial Model 1900 starter pistol, which usually can only fire blanks to start races and such. They could also fire tear gas. (source) (1)
• Uses nunchucks and what appears to be a hook sword of some kind in the intro credits. (source) (2)
• Uses nunchucks for real in the third movie, where he beats Black Chin Ho with them over and over. (source) (3)

Magical Abilities

• During his stay in Africa, Dolemite discovered and drank magical Voodoo Juice which gave him a variety of mystic powers, mainly the ability to harness electricity in his attacks. Dolemite also just has some non-Voodoo Juice related ‘powers’ that are included in this section.
• Zaps two thugs to make their guns malfunction, scaring them off. (source) (3)
• Uses his electrical powers to ignore Almo Green’s attacks, somehow cancelling them. (source) (3)
• Zaps Almo Green with a touch, stunning him. (source) (3)
• Zaps a man when he tries to attack him, stunning him in place to get kicked away. (source) (3)
• Knocks out or kills a man with a zap. (source) (3)
• Tries to blast Alamo Green with electricity, but it misses. (source) (3)
• After drinking some Voodoo Juice to demonstrate its effects, he either teleports around a dojo a bunch or flashes around at superspeed. Which one of those two is unclear. (source) (3)
• Freezes time briefly. (source) (3)
• Walks up a metal beam. (source) (3)
• Turns a man into a bitch. (source) (3)
• Could also turn people into animals if he wanted. (source) (3)
• Pulls a handful of snakes out of nowhere which he throws at Black Chin Ho, forcing him to retreat. (source) (3)
• In cut footage, he uses telekinesis to make a man rise up to the ceiling and stay there. (source) (3)
• Dolemite sometimes breaks the fourth wall, like mentioning that he’s in a motion picture, reversing part of the film to give an instant replay of a stunt he just did, and reversing the film and playing it back so he kicks Black Chin Ho a second time. He does that last thing twice when he reverses the film to hit him with nunchucks again. Sometimes the movies will just do reverses randomly, like here when he throws a man off a balcony and here where he does a surprise takedown. (source) (2)
• In Big Money Hustlas, Dolemite appears as a ghost to Sugar Bear… despite not being dead. He explains this as just being part of the script, and actually brings the director out to put the blame on him. While Sugar Bear was drunk and high on multiple different drugs when he first saw Dolemite, he’s shown to be actually present and not a hallucination or anything. He even shows up in the final gunfight to help out. (source) (BMH)

Skills

• While getting chauffeured around by his girls, he has them park the car and have him jump out so he can ambush some guys tailing them. (source) (1)
• While being driven around by some his friends and chased by cops, he has his friends drive down a tunnel then park their car in front of it so they can block the cops’ way and ambush them. (source) (2)
• After Willie Green starts chasing him, he runs into a room and turns all the lights off so he can jump him from behind when he gets in. (source) (1)
• After some assassins start coming for him while he’s in the hospital, he helps Blakely with a scheme where they switch his room and load up the bed with pillows, tricking the assassins into attacking a decoy so they can jump them from behind. (source) (1)
• At one point, Dolemite’s trying to find a house where Cavaletti’s hidden some of his girls at. A guy tells him that Cavaletti’s main woman would know the location, and also that she’s a nymphomaniac. So, in order to get her to give up the information, he disguises himself as a nude painting salesman (complete with business card) and shows her a painting of two people having sex. This gets her so horny that she has sex with him on the spot, and while banging her Dolemite’s able to get her to tell him the location. (source) (2)
• After he gets tied up to a chair, he’s able to loosen up the ropes and eventually get free. (source) (3)
• He’s so good at sex, women pay him for it. (source) (2)
• He’s a doctor in sex philosophy and has a PhD. (source) (3)
• Crowds gather to hear him recite his poetry. (source) (2)

All-Girl Army

• In the first two movies, Dolemite has a crew of dancer girls at his disposal who work at his club. While they mostly just drive him around and bring him his clothes, they’re all trained in karate and function as what the poster calls his ‘all-girl army of Kung Fu killers.’ From that first clip we can see that there’s around 11 in total, though the roster changes between the first film and the second.
• Blakely has seen them in action before and says they know ‘a lot about karate’ and that they’re ‘pretty good.’ Note that Willie Green took over Dolemite’s club at this point, so that’s why he’s saying they work for him. (source) (1)
• They were all put through karate school during the time Dolemite was in prison, and one was able to put a john in the hospital after he stole her money. (source) (1)
• When Willie Green’s men attack his club, all the girls help out in the ensuing brawl. (source) (1)
• During training, one’s able to beat up another martial artist and bring them to the mat. (source) (1)
• One’s shown easily beating up one of Green’s thugs, while another takes on two at once. (source) (1)
• One of them gets overwhelmed by one of Green’s thugs, but another steps in, disarms him, and kills him with his own knife. (source) (1)
• Two girls help Dolemite beat up a few guards. (source) (2)
• One girl runs and hits a guy with a jump kick, while another beats a man in a hand to hand fight. (source) (2)
• Two girls hold a guy in place to batter him, while another clings onto a man’s back and claws up his face with her nails. (source) (2)
• One pulls a woman off a couch and beats her while another wrestles a man to the ground. (source) (2)
• At least one of the girls carries a gun on her, which she uses to shoot a man before he can kill Queen Bee. (source) (2)

Miscellaneous

• At the end of the second movie, he kills Cavaletti in the greatest way possible: by taking him to the same torture house where he kept some of his girls and setting loose ravenous rats on him that eat his balls. (source) (2)
• An explosion appears behind him as he does one of his rhyming lines at the end of the third movie, though this could just be a video effect. (source) (3)
• The posters for his movies show him doing stuff he never actually does in the film. In the second movie’s poster, he’s shown as a literal human tornado knocking down buildings and in the third, he’s shown with an electrically charged pimp cane. (source) (2)
• Makes a brief cameo at a Snoop Dogg show in the music video for Doggy Dogg World. (source)